Well it's been awhile... But I've been away for a good reason and I'm back to share all the good news. We're getting married! That's right. After 8.5 years, Chris completely surprised me with a proposal on a rainy Monday evening before I went to 6th grade camp. While it sounds totally random, we we're supposed to have pictures taken in Forest Park...
August is a shopping month for me. Every year I try not to go crazy but there is just something about August that makes me go a bit wild in the shopping department. It is just so easy to find great deals and use all of my birthday coupons that just makes me so happy. I put together a little birthday board to...
Alright! I'm getting my butt in gear for September - workout gear that is! Stephanie, Steph, and Ashley have created the goal setting link up starting this month and I'm going to do my best to participate. The challenge for September is fitness which is ever so perfect for me because Chris and I are having pictures taken in October and I'd like...
After yesterday's Debbie Downer post, I felt like I had to come back and focus on the positive. Not gonna lie though - that intruder training was some heavy duty stuff. I spent some time in the classroom today thinking about my options if something should happen and practicing locking my door with a chair - it really works! But back to the...
It's been quite the whirlwind of back-to-school activity around here -going to meetings, laminating things, participating in active shooter training, and planning out the first week. Which one of those things doesn't seem to belong? Who would ever have thought that part of back-to-school activities would include learning how to evade, escape, and engage an "active killer"? (The terminology used during our training)....
Disclaimer: I teamed up with Expressions Vinyl.com through their Blogger Partnership Program to make my idea come to fruition. All opinions expressed are my own. It's August. Again. It seems like it comes faster and faster every year and summer vacation is over in the blink of an eye. While I'm always sad for my vacation to end, I do get excited for...
Lamps.com provided me with a product to review. All opinions are my own. Can we talk about the situation that is my living room? We've lived in our house about 3 and half years now and we've made some pretty good strides in the decor department. We've gone from a random hanging light, vertical blinds, and nothing on the walls. To this: We've...
